Recommend me a very small book...

[theclaud]

Try this one.

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=5671724

I'll be kind and pretend I'm rejecting it on grounds of length.

 

[theclaud]

No, I meant the passport you need for El Camino de Santiago. It gets stamped to prove you've done different stages of the pilgrimage.

Ah yes - the yellow thingy - I think they call it a credencial. I have one of those. I'm assuming I don't have to pretend to be a practising Catholic as well...

 

[theclaud]

Good ones, Manga and Redders. I had H of D overkill in my university days and don't think I'm ready to tackle it again, but the others are small-listed.

 

[dellzeqq]

like all aesthetes I arrange my books in size order. So, it is with considerable, if diminutive, pleasure that I can commend the following - each of which can be posted to Swansea

Francis Bacon's Essays - short, bite-sized little essays, quotable in the extreme. 'It is impossible to love and to be wise'. Indeed

The Diary of John Evelyn - actually this is completely ****ing boring. Forget it.

Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeniad by Virgil. Good on the economy of the countryside. The Georgics lay across English culture like a septic blanket, but terribly, terrifyingly important

and, coming up on the outside, a standard penguin size, but at 157 pages it doesn't weigh a lot....

Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard. Excellent for a walking holiday, especially if you plan to do your companion in....the discussion of Abraham's determination to sacrifice Isaac on pages 136 et seq is wonderful if read out loud, but you'd be well advised to tie your dear old mum up first in case she tries to escape.

 

[theclaud]

Spoilt for choice here. And I have to say, Dell, that you know how to sell it. It is true that the first "K" in Kierkegaard is a soft one, and likewise that the thing you buy newspapers and ice-creams from is properly pronounced "shosk"?

Whether it is or not, a PM will wing its way you to shortly. And thanks.

 

[red_tom]

...Excellent for a walking holiday, especially if you plan to do your companion in....

 

[MickL]

Cheap ass MP3 player and lots of spoken word books ?

 

[mangaman]

The Diary of John Evelyn - actually this is completely ****ing boring. Forget it.

Although my copy is 270 pages long an excellant read is

"Monsignor Quixote" by Graham Greene (given the nature of your journey)

 

[theclaud]

The Rider is excellent and pretty tiny but you'd probably finish it on the 1st evening.

Hmmm, how about something from this list at Amazon? The 'very short introduction' series seem well received.

Wow Tom - I had a look at that Amazon list and the first thing on it is by Gilles Deleuze. I read some of his and Guattari's stuff once, which comes highly recommended by the boffins in what was my line of academic enquiry. Christ - it makes Emmanuel Levinas look fun. There's some more promising stuff on there though.

Right - stop the suggestions please, I can't handle any more! Thanks everyone.

 

[dellzeqq]

Although my copy is 270 pages long an excellant read is

mine's 377, but the paper is so thin it's almost transparent, and the type is teenyweeny. But, it is volume 2, from 1666 on. If yours is volume 1, and you a loan of it then let me know..........

 

[theclaud]

mine's 377, but the paper is so thin it's almost transparent, and the type is teenyweeny. But, it is volume 2, from 1666 on. If yours is volume 1, and you a loan of it then let me know..........

Dell - you might like to know that the PM system is generating ungrammatical messages about you to the following effect:

"dellzeqq has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space."

Anyway, what I was trying to say was, yes and yes. Please. I don't know Anstey but I like a wildcard...

Thanks.

 

[marinyork]

Is that a sly dig at some faulty argument I made in P&L?

Seriously though, I'm all for it, but I think I've decided to set the limit at 150 pages! The pictures thing has made me think of John Berger's marvellous Ways of Seeing, though, so my smalllist is shaping up quite nicely.

No. I meant it seriously. I think the amount of time that you and Andy in Sig spend discussing linguistics and other related topics you may actually like it.

 

[Dave5N]

Nick a Gideon Bible.

And go straight to Hell. Do not pass go.

 

[Dave5N]

ANd at least you'll be aware what you're missing...

 

[very-near]

Cheap ass MP3 player and lots of spoken word books ?

Sacrilege. If theclaud is going to do a book, it must have tiny writing with big words in the sentences